Larry Dale Duke, the man who was responsible for plowing his truck into a group of Mae Hensley Junior High School students on Feb. 9, 2011, killing one and seriously injuring two others, was arrested Friday on drug charges.

At 7:15 p.m., Officer Angel Diaz was patrolling the 2400 block of Thomas Avenue when he spotted Duke, 59, of Ceres, and knew him to have a felony arrest warrant for narcotics.

Duke was arrested and booked into the Stanislaus County Public Safety Center.

Duke was sentenced in 2011 to 16 months in state prison for vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence as well as misdemeanor use of a controlled substance. He also was charged with reckless driving causing bodily injury. Traces of methamphetamine and the sleeping aid Ambien were detected in a sample of blood taken following the crash. The 2011 crash killed 13-year-old Danielle Tarancon.

Following the deadly crash 14 years ago, Duke issued a statement to a TV station saying he didn’t know what happened in the fatal crash, and expressed remorse to the families of the victims.